Get backup status for individual VM's

[Manfriday]

Hi,

Some of the admin's want to be able to pull a list of the individual VM's backup status.
They don't want to dig thru the job reports.. they just want to be able to run a script and find out whether a specified VM was backed up properly or not.

Is there a way to do this with powershell?

[Vitaliy S.]

Hi Jason,

You may want to take a look at this existing post, that has a script example that you're looking for:
PowerShell Veeam backup status report

Thanks!

[Manfriday]

Thanks!

I had seen that thread actually, but the script doesn't seem to work with version 6.


Jason

[Sethbartlett]

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$VMName = "Name of your VM"
foreach($Job in (Get-VBRJob))
{
	$Session = $Job.FindLastSession()
	if(!$Session){continue;}
	$Tasks = $Session.GetTaskSessions()
	$Tasks | ?{$_.Name -eq $VMName} | %{write-host $_.Name ":" $_.Status}
}

[Manfriday]

That worked great!
Thanks!

[robudus]

Hi we use Veeam B&R 11.

i tried:

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$VMName = "Name of your VM"
foreach($Job in (Get-VBRJob))
{
	$Session = $Job.FindLastSession()
	if(!$Session){continue;}
	$Tasks = $Session.GetTaskSessions()
	$Tasks | ?{$_.Name -eq $VMName} | %{write-host $_.Name ":" $_.Status}
}

I get this error: Method invocation failed because [Veeam.Backup.PowerShell.Infos.VBRComputerBackupJob] does not contain a method named 'FindLastSession'.


I would like to get the backup status from one vm or real machine. Please help.

Thx
ROBudus

[oleg.feoktistov]

Hi Robert,

Do you use Get-VBRComputerBackupJob cmdlet for agent backup jobs anywhere in your script?
This error basically means that the object returned with Get-VBRComputerBackupJob doesn't have FindLastSession() method.
To get last session for agent backup jobs you would need to use native powershell filtering capabilities:

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$job = Get-VBRComputerBackupJob -Name 'Job Name'
$sessions = Get-VBRComputerBackupJobSession -Name $($job.Name) | Sort -Property CreationTime
$sessions | Select -First 1

Thanks,
Oleg